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Category Archives: Folk Tale
‘Heart and Soul’…
* The first key… Bigger than me… and inside, a box; identical but smaller, in order to fit, with another key. * Key number two… As big as you… whose mote is my beam, now clearly seen as I click … Continue reading
Posted in Folk Tale, france and vincent
Tagged Fairy Tale, giants, magic, mystery, Mythology, psychology, story, symbolism
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Troll Bridge…
* Black-Jack-Davey had been on the road since sun-up. As twilight descended filching the last of the colour from his day he came upon a village. Up ahead he could make out a little stone bridge and what he took … Continue reading
Posted in Folk Tale, Photography, reblog
Tagged Fairy Tale, landscape, mystery, psychology, story, symbolism
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Harvest of Wyrms…
* ‘The Witch’, they called her but she minded not, tending to her herbs and the animals and birds which nature’s highest intelligence brought to the garden of her single-roomed house knowing her abilities to hold and to heal… It … Continue reading
Posted in Folk Tale, france and vincent
Tagged esoteric, Fairy Tale, hawks, landscape, magic, mystery, psychology, story, symbolism
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Armoury Show…
* The prosperous town of Armore was built next to a forest. Late one night Old-Man-Log came out of the forest and sat down in the middle of the town’s market square. He opened up the palm of his right … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Folk Tale, The Silent Eye
Tagged history, interpretation, meaning, mystery, Mythology, psychology, story, symbolism
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Tom Banjo…
* Down the dark stairwell, a silent progress plotted. ‘Twas death in that house were Tom but spotted. …He reached the door, a tree clad Owl hooted. Three seconds more and Tom was Seven League Booted. One stride it took … Continue reading
Posted in albion, Folk Tale
Tagged esoteric, Fairy Tale, giants, landscape, magic, meaning, mystery, Mythology, Poetry, psychology, story, Stuart France and Sue Vincent, The Silent Eye
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Bally’s Tale: Treasure of Tara…
* …Many years later, in the reign of Art-mac-Conn, at the festival of Samhuin, the Master Poets came to the feast, as was their custom, and they brought their tablets of poetry with them… * When king Art saw the … Continue reading
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Tagged magic, mystery, Mythology, Photography, psychology, story, writing
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Bally’s Tale: Apple and Yew…
* …Afterwards the same uncanny man went to the south and accosted Elaine as she was resting from her travels in a sun-trap. “From whence do you come and where are you heading, unknown?” said Elaine. “From the mouth of … Continue reading
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Tagged landscape, magic, mystery, Mythology, Photography, psychology, writing
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The Tale of Bally-mac-Buan…
* Bally ‘sweet-speech’ the renowned story teller secretly arranged to tryst with Elaine, daughter of king Fergus. The one from Ulster, the other from Leinster… Both set out to meet at Ross-na-Ree on the south side of the river Boyne. … Continue reading
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Tagged landscape, magic, mystery, Mythology, Photography, psychology, story, writing
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Swords redrawn… #bookextract #fantasy
Some years ago, I published a fantasy novel, set in the magical landscape of Yorkshire. It was initially written to preserve some of the stories and folklore I had learned as a child, wandering the moors with my grandfather. From … Continue reading
Posted in Books, England, fantasy, fiction, Folk Tale, Humour, Landscape, Photography
Tagged esoteric fiction, Fae, giants, magic, Merlin
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The Shreiking Womb…
* The Ulstermen were drinking in the house of Connavor’s Bard, Fedlimed mac Dall. Fedlimed’s wedd-woman, who happened to be full with child, was also in attendance. She passed round meat and drink and, when the house reached drunken uproar, … Continue reading
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Tagged Folk Tale, landscape, magic, mystery, psychology, story, writing
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